Students of the fourth grade enjoyed making and eating ice cream.

On August 31, 2nd grade students enjoyed making and launching rockets at Sage Creek Elementary. Rockets were made by each student out of paper and foam then were lauched using compressed air as a propellant.

Sage Creek Elementary presents Gold Medal Dragon Awards to students weekly for Gold Medal Worthy Performances at school. A Gold Medal worthy preformance can range from helping another student or teacher to having an exceptional performance on a academic test. Congratulations to all Gold Medal Dragons.

On Wednesday, April 4th, the second grade students from Sage Creek Elementary had the pleasure of visiting Harward Farms in Springville for their annual Farm Field Day.  How much do YOU know about Agriculture? Well, we learned things like: a plant needs five things to grow:  water, air, sunlight, soil, and nutrients; the Z.I.P. you gets from eating beef stands for zinc, iron, and protein; and a mother sheep is called a ewe!  Thank you, Harward Farms, for an amazing day of learning!!

Thanks to the Sage Creek PTA,  a Mad Scientist came to Sage Creek Elementary on Wednesday, March 21, 2012!  We learned so much about science, and had such a great time learning!  He talked to us about the scientific process, and helped us to understand how we could conduct experiments to help us prove our hypotheses.  Amid the smoke, fire, and water, all agreed that it was a terrific assembly!

At Sage Creek Elementary, classes are taught weekly the following Character Education skills:  how to show appreciation, accept responsibility, and make good choices.  These students have been chosen to be the Determined Dragons for the month of March because they have made our school a better place by using their Character Education skills.  They are: Caden Atkinson, Rylee Axford, Cole Bailey, Autumn Barker, Thomas Bond, Tyler Call, Paxton Child, Payson Child, Cashlynn Chruma, Jake Davies, Brandon Douglas, Andrew Florence, Gavyn Forbush, Sydney Gee, Adam Golding, Taelyn Gourley, Makenley Gross, Brett Hansen, Isaac Holiday, Cassidy Jones, Kaitlyn Kim, Amy Lemus, Chase Lewis, Alan Lopez, Araceli Luna, Hayden Mast, Spencer McConnell, Ryan Meeks, George Miller, Sydnie Nilsson, Kelvin Rodriguez, Hailey Rollins, Kortni Roth, Armando Salcedo, Kyle Snyder, Ryan Stephens, Teryn Stubbs, Ashley Tarango, Alyssa Thomas, Lance Welch, Christy White, Ethan White, Chloe Wilcox and Makenzie Woodward.

Shellie Graves, fourth grade teacher at Sage Creek Elementary, was awarded the coveted Crystal Apple Award by her peers for outstanding leadership in education.  Shellie is the mother of five and the grandmother of fifteen  Shellie has taught at Sage Creek for 21 years and has touched the lives of hundreds if not thousands of children.  She is an amazing educator who plans her lessons meticulously.  Shellie also goes the extra mile to plan  activities such as making ice cream, decorating haunted houses, digging for fossils in cookies and and making fossils. She is ultra organized, and is  the scheduling queen at Sage Creek. She schedules not only the 4th grade but the entire schools’ lunch, prep, duty,  and computer time. Shellie loves teaching and puts on amazing plays with her students. She also leads the 4th grade program, always making it memorable to students and parents.  Shellie also knows everyone in the Springville and several generations back in their families. Shellie is a proud Springville High Alum and has buckets full of BYU pride. As a faculty we so proud and happy to award Shellie the Crystal Apple Award for all of her hard work and dedication to children. Shellie we thank you and love you.

There is a Secret Garden at Sage Creek Elementary! Media Specialist, Marsha Rasmussen, has created a “Secret Garden” in the Media Center’s kiva for all students to enjoy.  The kiva is created after the book, The Secret Garden, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, which was initially published in the autumn of 1910 and has been a favorite of children and adults ever since. Sage Creek students will enjoy the Garden atmosphere as they enjoy media and other presentations during library and class time.  Thank you Mrs. Rasmussen!

Check and Mate!  Nathan Bingham, son of Michael and Gina Bingham, a fifth grader in Mrs. Sleight's Sage Creek fifth grade class took 6th place in the state chess tournament this past week.   Alan Bird, Sydney, Adam, Rebecca and Samual Gee, and Taylor Shaw also competed from Sage Creek.  There were approximately one hundred contestants in Nathan's age division and he out-maneuvered each of his opponents to place in the top six.  Nathan Bingham:  no chess "rookie"!  Congratulations Nate!

Fourth graders from Mrs. Robbins' class at Sage Creek Elementary celebrated Dr. Suess Day by reading the Suess story “ Bartholomew and the Oobleck.”     They were amazed that the King thought that he could actually change the weather .  They decided to make their own oobleck.  Once they had seen the chemical change, and experimented with the oobleck, they concluded that oobleck was:   sticky, messy, disgusting, amazing and….. FUN!!!!